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• Song of the Day #511: ‘Crying’ – TV On the Radio

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  I took some birthday money and bought a bunch of new music right around this time last year. Actually, I even wrote a post about it… this one. Of the seven CDs I bought, two rose quickly to the top of the heap: Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad (the beginning [...]
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• Song of the Day #510: ‘Let Her Cry’ – Hootie & the Blowfish

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  I recently watched the Country Music Awards for the first time in my life and was happy to see Darius Rucker win the Best New Artist trophy (the first black performer to do so). It’s funny that a guy who first hit it big 15 years ago is considered a [...]
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• Song of the Day #509: ‘Apologies’ – Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

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  I’m sticking with the talent show today and featuring a song I’d never heard by a band I didn’t know existed. That probably applies to half the songs I heard in the talent show, but in this case I was moved to seek out the original track. The singers were definitely [...]
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• Song of the Day #508: ‘Fifteen’ – Taylor Swift

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  My wife runs an annual talent show at the high school where she teaches and watching it every year is a very stirring experience. It’s wonderful to sit in an auditorium full of 500 screaming kids going absolutely nuts over something my lady put together. I’m also impressed by the talent [...]
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• Shakira – She Wolf

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  Of all the artists I listen to regularly, Shakira is perhaps the biggest test of my recent conclusion that it’s music — not lyrics — that means the most to me. For one thing, Shakira’s best work has been recorded entirely in Spanish, so I have very little idea what [...]
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• Song of the Day #507: ‘Do You Want to Know a Secret’ – The Beatles

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  Here’s the “favorite song” from Please Please Me I alluded to yesterday. There’s something so simple and lovely about this tune, which you can say about so many great Beatles songs. And I love the use of the intro before the main melody kicks in… similar to Lennon’s opening to [...]
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• Song of the Day #506: ‘Please Please Me’ – The Beatles

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  I started these Beatles weekends with the first track from their first album — ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ on Please Please Me. I’ve since dedicated a week to every Beatles album (with the exception of the lame Yellow Submarine) so I’m circling back around to again focus on their [...]
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• Song of the Day #505: ‘America’ – Simon & Garfunkel

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  Simon & Garfunkel released only one more album (so far), though they have reunited a number of times since 1970. That release was The Concert in Central Park, a 1981 recording of the most memorable of those reunions. Simon had been scheduled to appear solo, playing a free concert on the [...]
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• Song of the Day #504: ‘The Boxer’ – Simon & Garfunkel

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  Simon & Garfunkel saved the best for last. Their final studio album, 1970’s Bridge Over Troubled Water was their most accomplished yet, featuring several enduring classics and their most sophisticated production. Despite being lifelong friends (or perhaps because of that), Simon and Garfunkel broke up a lot. In fact, they nearly [...]
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• Song of the Day #503: ‘Mrs. Robinson’ – Simon & Garfunkel

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  The first two Simon & Garfunkel songs I featured were used in The Graduate and now the third is the song most famously associated with that film. I didn’t plan it that way… I guess Mike Nichols and I just have similar taste in music. 1968’s Bookends is an odd little [...]
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